Rant & Rave Season 8 [Spoilers]: When you are cool like a cucumber, as evil as the mother of madness, but never as perfect as the pet!

[Ser Hedge]

 

 Can you believe this nonsense?

[kissdbyfire]

4 hours ago, Mystical said:

Am I the only who wishes the episode would get leaked early? I want to be more awake when the meltdown starts happening...

Nope, I’m w/ you, if for different reasons. I would love for the episode to leak early just to deflate viewership. In fact, I wish it had leaked days ago. 

[Ser Drewy]

It's weird to think GOT is ending. 

You know, for as long as I've loved ASOIAF, it never really occurred to me that the "I'll cut off your cunny and feed it to you!" type stuff was the main attraction for anyone. But on the whole, it seems to have been for B&W. Huh. 

[Nightwish]

45 minutes ago, Ser Hedge said:

 

 Can you believe this nonsense?

Lol it doesn’t matter, apparently there are gonna be people who will support them for various reasons but the majority of the fans are against them, feel cheated, disappointed. They can’t buy or manipulate the mass opinion. 

[kissdbyfire]

So. The thing w/ David and Dan saying they’d be in hiding somewhere until after the end... when are they going to come out of hiding? I imagine everyone and their dogs will want an interview [w/ the guys who managed to fuck it all up so badly]. Is anyone getting one apart from the King of Showpologists, James Hibberd? Or will every outlet that’s not EWwwww be quoting from them?

If the spineless “can’t deal w/ criticism” attitude holds, EWwwww will be the only one talking to them short term. After all, they still refuse to answer any questions about their stupid AF Sansa Poole idea...

[kissdbyfire]

1 hour ago, Ser Hedge said:

 

 Can you believe this nonsense?

I felt an urge to go to that thread to say, “thank you for NOTHING, and fuck you”. I didn’t though, that’s probably a big no-no.

[bloodsteel bitterraven]

3 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:

I felt an urge to go to that thread to say, “thank you for NOTHING, and fuck you”. I didn’t though, that’s probably a big no-no.

I just did, and it felt great.

[kissdbyfire]

4 minutes ago, bloodsteel bitterraven said:

I just did, and it felt great.

I was torn when giving my reaction... between “thank you!!!!”, or like, or laugh.

[divica]

Just now, kissdbyfire said:

So. The thing w/ David and Dan saying they’d be in hiding somewhere until after the end... when are they going to come out of hiding? I imagine everyone and their dogs will want an interview [w/ the guys who managed to fuck it all up so badly]. Is anyone getting one apart from the King of Showpologists, James Hibberd? Or will every outlet that’s not EWwwww be quoting from them?

If the spineless “can’t deal w/ criticism” attitude holds, EWwwww will be the only one talking to them short term. After all, they still refuse to answer any questions about their stupid AF Sansa Poole idea...

Someone must talk about the end of the show. If it ends as bad as is expected this season probably ruins the entire GOT franchise… Even the books will be hurt...

Between disapointment about a million things and people not wanting to see the story ending in tragedy and stupidity a lot of people seem to be done with grrm related material

[lakin1013]

1 hour ago, Ser Hedge said:

 

 Can you believe this nonsense?

Using critical thinking on an entertainment product is very difficult for some folks.  Usually, it can be found in several groups: the uncritical viewers, the passive viewers, the optimistic viewers, and the angry viewers, as in how-dare-they criticize.  Some viewers will not apply critical analysis to a media product, usually a book but in this case, a tv show.  They will sit down to watch whatever is offered. It would not occur to them to think about what they watched. It is enough.  Passive viewers watch whatever they are given, accept it, and if it was entertainment, they claim to be entertained. The optimistic viewers firmly go with the 'if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all'.  The optimists will think it is disloyal and unfair to analyze, dissect, or criticize.  This argument would go something like -- they tried their best and nobody is perfect.   Finally, the combination type will get very angry at people who critically analyze a show and discuss the flaws.  Often these people will tell you that you did not truly understand the complex nature of the show, or that you were not paying sufficient attention, or that you are not up to the task.  

Critical thinking seems to be in short supply the world over so I recommend we all use it, regularly.  

[The Fattest Leech]

1 hour ago, Ser Hedge said:

 

 Can you believe this nonsense?

So, the internet spiders ate the content and the curiosity is killing me 

[kissdbyfire]

2 minutes ago, The Fattest Leech said:

So, the internet spiders ate the content and the curiosity is killing me 

Thread was locked because it was quickly turning into an unashamed bashing of David and Dan.

Last few posts were deleted...

[The Fattest Leech]

12 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:

Thread was locked because it was quickly turning into an unashamed bashing of David and Dan.

Last few posts were deleted...

Well, it shall be remembered fondly 

[Clueless Northman]

1 hour ago, kissdbyfire said:

If the spineless “can’t deal w/ criticism” attitude holds, EWwwww will be the only one talking to them short term. After all, they still refuse to answer any questions about their stupid AF Sansa Poole idea...

Mass Effet 3 shitstorm? Oh, it's just entitled gamers.

The Last Jedi shitstorm? Oh, it's just entitled elder fans.

GOT Season 8 shitstorm? Oh, it's just entitled book fans.

That has been the standard shitty deflective tactic used for years, no reason they're going to stop, as long as there are tools in the media to actually report such idiotic defenses. At this point, I'm just wondering when we'll see the "Critics of Season 8 / of D-D are juste alt-right goons" line of arguing :p

[kissdbyfire]

90 mins of waiting... I have a bottle of tequila so I don’t really care. Then 90 mins of stupid AF whatever David and Dan throw at us. Then... IT’S ALL OVER, FOREVER.

 

 

[kissdbyfire]

I think I’m gonna bail... blame it on work being really hard, or on im really tired, or the spouse being so dead set on whatever Scottish stand up he’s listening to, or on David and Dan not being worth it. But even w/o watching I am dead certain it will SUCK. Very hard. 

And cant wait to read everyone’s thoughts on it to tomorrow morning. The new R&R thread for the episode might be 100 pages long before I even see it.

[divica]

3 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:

90 mins of waiting... I have a bottle of tequila so I don’t really care. Then 90 mins of stupid AF whatever David and Dan throw at us. Then... IT’S ALL OVER, FOREVER.

 

 

you have to be kind of sad.

It is the end of an era both for tv, this site and book fans.

After today everyone will have a canon end to asoiaf… if the prequels don t go ahead this site will slowly die, I suspect many book fans will be done with the saga...

[kissdbyfire]

7 minutes ago, divica said:

you have to be kind of sad.

It is the end of an era both for tv, this site and book fans.

After today everyone will have a canon end to asoiaf… if the prequels don t go ahead this site will slowly die, I suspect many book fans will be done with the saga...

I’m not. Maybe I’m a heartless cold bitch, but I’m not sad at all. 

Quote the opposite, In fact. I’m happy this charade is going to be over soon. 

[Demetri]

10 minutes ago, divica said:

After today everyone will have a canon end to asoiaf… if the prequels don t go ahead this site will slowly die, I suspect many book fans will be done with the saga...

I disagree. I've lurked and posted under a different handle here for a while. Definitely not winning any awards for participation, but I really enjoy the fellowship and community here. It, frankly, represents perhaps the most knowledgeable fan group I've ever seen.

We're droll pedants ultimately. There will always be posts when everybody is a pedant.

[divica]

Just now, Demetri said:

I disagree. I've lurked and posted under a different handle here for a while. Definitely not winning any awards for participation, but I really enjoy the fellowship and community here. It, frankly, represents perhaps the most knowledgeable fan group I've ever seen.

We're droll pedants ultimately. There will always be posts when everybody is a pedant.

But there aren t really many topics here to post about after the end of GOT and grrm not publishing a new book… Most people will stop coming here...

Just now, kissdbyfire said:

I’m not. Maybe I’m a heartless cold bitch, but I’m not sad at all. 

Quote the opposite, In fact. I’m happy this charade is going to be over soon. 

After this season I am kind of relieved it is finally over. It were really a lot of awful episodes… But I am also sad… The hype people have with GOT dies today… No more theories, reddit, fanfiction or whatever...